we'll help bring together all the people of the district of columbia joining together and truly build one city. thank you all very much. >> the results are finally in. vincent gray beat out adrian fenty to win the democratic primary in the d.c. mayor's race. good morning. thanks f joining us for news 4 today. >> good morning to you on this wednesday, the 15th of september 2010. live look outside. 67 degrees. let's see wther we will have a really nice day today. >> looks like it so far. tom is here with the forecast. >> sunrise still 50 minutes away. it's beginning later and later. and this morning we have chilly temperatures to talk about under the clear sky. 63 at national airport.

mid-50s in prince george's. much of fairfax county. of of montgomery county. low 50s. loudon and frederick, as well as into northern virginia. weather watchers reportg only near 50. west of the blue ridge, a little bit warmer. winchester, 58. rural areas, only in the 40s to near 50. eastern shore, mid-50s under a clear sky. lots of sunshine as high pressure is moving in. highs reaching near 80. tomorrow, increasing clouds. blustery, southerly wind should warm us to the low to mid-80s. needed rain thursday night. dry friday into the weekend. how is your traffic now, jerry? >> certainly picking up volume. 95 nkd through the enter changes. northbound traffic, left side of your screen. overnight road wrk southbound. right now southbound is doing

okay northbound to the capital beltway. let's head over and update you on 270. the good news is it's not as bad as it appears along 270 as you round the bend. just a little volume. travel lanes open. metro and vre are okay. brunswick 870 is 12 minutes behind schedule. we'll keep you updated. this morning vincent gray is poised to become the district's next mayor. he defeated adrian fepty with 53% of the vote. he declared vtory early this morning. a spokesman said he will call gray later to concede. tracy is live outside the washington court hotel where the speech will take place. >> reporter: good morning. he's first going to have to scuss his plans coming up for

the general election. his campaign is definitely not taking anything for granted. and th possibility of there being a write-in candidate. he is the democratic nomination for mayor. gray came into politics late. he's 67 years old. he won the council seat in 2004 and chair in 2006. now he's hoping to be the city's next mayor. the morning started in a quiet room as vincent gray and his family watched. then the final numbers came in. gray picked up 53% of the vote. and mayor adrian fenty, 46 he started his speech by acknowledging mayor adrian fenty. his supporters did the same. >> despite our differences i know well that adrian fenty shares our commitment to the city. please join me in applauding and thanking him for his record

of service to the people of the district of columbia. >> as polls predicted, gray's support helped to carry the candidate. but he nows to be a uniter. >> when high unemployment ravages ward 8, it is also flt in ward 3. when senseless violence claims a victim in one neighborhood, none of our families feel safe. that's why we need community engagement and collaboration. >> gray will announce plans for the november 2nd general election today at noon. tracee wilkins live in northwest. back to you in the udio. >> tracy, thanks very much. mayor adrian fenty left campaign headquarters without offially conceding victory to gray. >> he is expected to make an

announcement later on today. elaine reyes continues our coverage of the d.c.ayor race from fenty's headquarters. elaine, good morning. >> good morning. that's right. adrian fey expected to call sometime thimorning to concede. he said he wanted to wait until he got the official nbers from the board of election. some of the last people left just a few hours ago. he didn't stay up late waiting for the final votes tcome in. he was elected in 2006 as the district's youngest mayor. the votes came in yesterday, he took mostly white areas of the city while black voters were for gray. it's important to note only four years ago, in his last election, fenty won every precinct.

>> i always tell people you never know what's going to happen until thenight of the election. we expect to win. just wait for the board of election to do the count. >> now, what is next for mayor fenty. again, he was careful not to say too much tonight. he has said in the past he would not consider a write-in campaign. but a few hours ago his spokesman said it was too early to say if he would consider a write-in campaign. >> interesting. thank you very much. ee rain reyes reporting live. we know who is expected poised to take his place. kwame brown defeated orange and douglas in a landslide. brown walked away with 55 comred to orange's 30% and douglas's 6%.

what the family of a fallen marine is demanding from arlington national cemetery today. 68 depress at 6:07. sky beginning to brighten a bit. the full forecast coming up. stay wi us.

6:10 is your time. 68 degrees. beautiful sky. first light of the morning. isn't that pretty? >> doesn't get much prettier than that. what a lovely way to start the day just gazing at that. >> blue berries and peaches sunrise. >> a little cantaupe, too. >> we're always hungry. a little bit of that. good morning. we are starting off with a mostly clear sky. it is quite chilly. 50s in the suburbs and rural areas. mountains, ly in the 40s. washington, near the bay, low

60s. highs reaching the low 80s. low humidity. northwesterly breeze 5 to 10. mostly clear tonight. sun clouding up in the afternoon. thursdayight, we might get a passing shower, small chance. drying out friday. sunack in the afternoon. highs low 80. 50s in the morning. low 80s in the afternoon. a look at sunday and next week in ten minutes. how is the traffic now, jerry? >> the tractor traileris still there new york avenue inbound just at the top size of your screen. tractor trailer has beenhere all morning. broken down in the left lane. now it is beginning to have a pretty major impact through northeast. so heads-up from that. may want to pop out over to rhodisland avenue. of on the beltway, college park, right side the outer loop. from green belt to the american legion bridge both directions, looking good.

>> well, thank you jerry. 68 grees. more results from decision 2010. the results were counted through the night. we now have a winner in the prince george's county race. the cost change that could soon be coming to your commute.

our top story this morning, it now appears that washington, d.c. will have a new mayor. d.c. council chairman gray

defeated adrian fenty in the democratic primary. jim graham won his primary in ward 1 defeating smith d weaver in that race. > harry stomach as was victorious in ward 5. 62% of the votes. >> let's ta a look at ward 6. victory for tommy wells. defeated binson, getting 75 oers of the vote. we can now declare baker the winner in the race to replace retiring executive jack johnson with 97% of the votes counted. >> baker won the democratic primary with 44% in a five-way race. jackson is second with 33% of the vote, followed by samuel dean, levi and henry turner. >> repoer: baker, a form or state delegate said before the

numbers came in tuesday night that if he didn't win on his third try that he was done. well, despite the low voter turnout, baker doesn't have to worry about that anymore as he has won the prince gorge's county executive race. >> baker, baker, baker! >> the 51-year-old addressed the raucous crowd in six flag last night. this w a hotly contested five-way race at times was overshadowed by voter fraud and fake ballots around the county. jackson believed he was the most experienced person for the job, serving as sheriff for the past eight years. as of this morning he has not conceded defeat. he is excited to get to work and create jobs for the residents of prince george's county.

>> this is not the finish, this is the beginning line. our goal is greatness. we arrive at the beginning. no matter who you voted for, whose t-shirt you wore, who you chanted for in the parade. th goal of every prince george's is to make prince george's the greatest county there is. >> and with no challengers for the november election, baker is slated to be the next county executive of prince george's county. back to you. >> all right. john, thank you. >> several other big races in prince george's county, state's attorney angela won that by quite a large margin, 42% of the vote. >> office of sheriff is up for grabs. right now the currenthief is leading. 35% of the vote.

and former prince george's county police officer and brother of the cher is behind him with 31% of the vote. >> montgomery county, rosenfeld for the republican nomination, 69% to 31%. rosenfeld will face isaiah ggett, the first african-american elected to office. >> and a rematch for the race for maryland governor. martin o'malley defeatis two opponents with 86% of the vote. he will look ahead to the general election where he will face republican bob ehrlich who took chaler sarah palin and brian murphy in the gop pimary with almost 75% of the vote. the two, of course, know each other well from 06. both started sparring in a race that may achieve national attention. >> we left here with budget

surplus, a lot of money in a rainy day fund. left here on a pretty high level. all th's gone now. >> we have improved our schools, to have reduced crime to its lowest level since 1975, a job creation that's twice what the rest of the nation is doing are all good stories we need to tell. >> right now o'malley holds a three-point lad over ehrlich in the recent three election polls. and barbara mckul ski got 80% of the vote. she faced some six challengers in the primary and is looking to win her fifth term in november. she's expected to be a heavy favorite against eric who won e gop nomination. he took almst 39% in a crowded ten-candidate race. it has been an unpredict

bible primary signal which could signal a rocky general election in november for establishment politicians. another tea party candidate won the gop primary for u.s senate in delaware. christine o'donnell won the nomination. breaking nws right now. prince george's county police are in a standoff with a man in capital heights. this is a live picture from chopper 4. this has been going on apparently for eight hours in the 8600 blob of rich burrow road. police believe the man has a woman inside that house, a woman that he knows. the standoff has been going on for about eight years. prince george's county police surrounding this particular town house. live pictures from chopper 4. we will continue to follow this story thrghout the morning, of course. also today,rea transportation leaders will talk about adding toll roads. the national capital region

planning board will meet to talk aut a new plan. they want to create a 1650 network of toll ways. capital beltway, interstates 295, 395, 66 and the gorge washington parkways are the roadways under consideration. specific rates not part of the current proposal. they would dend on location and time of day. it includes a 500-mile rapid transit bus system that would use the toll network. skies e gorgeous, tom. looks like a nice day. >> all up chill in the area. look at the temperatures now. low 60s in washington and near the bay. elsewhere, generally in the 50s. 40s in the mountains. afternoon highs, near 80-degree mark. tomorrow, increasing clouds. low to mid-80s. small chance of a shower thursday night. friday, partly cloudy, low 80s. mostly sunny saturday. 50s in the morning.

highs, low 80s. 60s in the morning. in the afternoon, still comfortable dry. no humidity around. we'll stay dry into the first part of next ek. let's check traffic. how is itlooking, jerry. >> off we go. 14th street bridge. not bad. everybody seems to have a latively decent commute. good news there. see if the good news continues. yes, it does. broken down tractor trailer is gone. new york avenueinbound at florida avenue. had been right there in the lane. delays are beginning to ease a little bit just in the nick of time. out on the roads, acouple things to tell you. 302 is slightly delayed about ten minutes. they had a sick passenger to deal wih. it's on its way moving once again. brunswick 870 is 13 minutes te. 8726. >> thank you very much, jerry.

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one of the two johns hopkins students hit b a suspected drunk driver last week has died. she was on 18th street and florda avenue when a car hit her before crashing into a restaurant. she died from her injuries last night. the 26-year-old was from austria. the driver, adams, was charged with aggravated assault and driving while intoxicated. the remains of a fallen

soldier will be xumed this morning. he was killed by a road side borrow four years ago. the xumation comes as a result of his father, scott, who lives in canton, ohio. he said the recent controversies, look wit inconsistencies in his son's paperwork, led him to petition for the exhumation. coming up next at 6:30, live team coverage of the primaries in d.c. and maryland. and it was a expenseful night and early morning hours. the winner, though, in the d.c. mayor's race

now it's time for us to look forward and how we can work to unite our great city. >> change at th top. vincent gray is set to oust fenty as mayor of washington, d.c. good morning. and welcome back to news 4 today at 6:31. >> it is wednesday, september 15th, 2010. a live look outside right now. 66 egrees. beautiful skies. just a few clouds. but clear. a little touch of orange, meaning the sun should be up in another 15 minutes or so. a nice cool, crip, refreshing morning. >> sunrise, 6:49. temperatures under this clear sky are chilly this morning. a certain sense of anticipation of autumn in the a. right now only in the low 50s in the suburbs west of interstate

95 in arlington, montgomery, fairfax. low 60s in washington near 60 near thebay. in the 40s inest virginia. eastern shore, away from the waters, mid-50s. near 60 on this cool and fresh september morning. a clear sky now. mostly sunny today. low 80s. a bit milder tomorrow with increasing clouds. small chance of a shower thursday night. dry friday into the weekend. >> tom, doing pretty well on i-270 right here. traffic, left side of your screen is heading down from montrose to northern virginia. travel lanes open. that's pretty much the story down the 270 corridor. let's see how we're doing headed for downtown. 395, 14th street idge. a little suspicious. maybe something going on at the d.c. end.

it doesn't look good to my eyeballs. but at this age -- anyway. out on the rails at this hour update you. brunswick, three delays on the brunswick line. 780, 892 and vre fredericksburg 302 slight delay. about ten minutes or less. jerry, the eyeballs never failed you in the past. thank you. >> thank you. we are following breaking news out of prince george's coun right now. police are surrounding a house where a gunman is reportedly barricaded inside. this is a home in the 8600 block of capital heights. police tell us it began as a domestic situation and the gunmanis holding a female stage inside. no reports of any shots fired. police are trying to resolve the situation peacefully. we'll bring you more on this story as it becomes available. back to decision 2010. itppears washington may soon have a new may.

vincent gray defeated mayor adrian fenty in the democratic pie mary yesterday >> d.c. council chair is expected to speak later today about the campaign head. >> right now news 4's tracee wilkins is live where that speech will take place. good morning, tracy. >> reporter: good morning. 67-year-old gray is basically won every city position that he ran f. he started politics a little late. but in 2004 he got the ward 7 council seat, chairman in 2006. now he's won the democratic nomination for mayor. >> the morning started in a quiet room. then the final numbers came in. gray picked up 53 oers of the vote. fenty, 46%.

but he started his speech by acknowledging mayor adrian fenty. and his supporters did the same. >> despite our differences i know well fenty shares our commitment. so please join me n applauding him and thanking him for his service for the people of the distct of columbia. >> as the polls predicted, east of the river helped to carry the candidate. but gray vows to be a uniter. >> the affects were also felt in ward three. when some our students fall behind, the cease-fire community eels it. when there's a victim in one neighborhood, none of our families feel safe. that's why we need community engagement and collaboration. >> reporter: the general election will be in november on the 2nd.

barring any majorwrite-in candidate it looks like he will be the next mayor. so today they will ta about what's happening with his capaign as they prepare for the general election. tracee wilkins, live this morning, northwest. >> tracy, thank you. mayor fenty, who recently declared himself to be the under dog is yet tofficially concede but is expected to make an announcement later today. elaine reyes continues our coverage for the mayor race in northwest washington. elaine, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, joe. ed last time he was in an election he won every single precinct. you can imagine things have changed quite a bit. fepty wanted to wait until he got the official numbers from the board of elections before he said too much this morning.nty got the official numbers from the board of elections before he said too much this morning.

now, fenty stayed late waiting for final numbers to come in. elected back in 2006, he was the dirict's youngest mayor. and as the votes came in yesterday it appeared fenty took in mostly white areas of the city, while black voters supported vincent gray. constituents in the back complained of fenty's management style with 90% of the precinct this morning, gray had 53% of the vote, rather. fenty, 46%. >> take whatever decision the voters have and respond to it. we just need to know what that is the only way we can know is with the board of elections. >> now, again, a lot of people asked fenty late last night what would his future be in politics, if any. a lot of people were asking him what he was thinking. he saidn the past he would not consider a write-in campaign. when we talked to his spokesperson a few hours ago h saidt was auto early to say if a write-in campaign was a possibility. back to you. >> elainelaine, thank you.

>> tnks. this morning we know who is poised to take gray's place at current chair. kwame brown defeated orange and douglas in a landslide. he walked away with 55% of the vote compared to orange's 30% and douglas's 6%. phil mendelson beat out brown and ray. d.c. elections is saying 97% have been counted. some we given paper ballots. the grayamp went to bat to keep the polls open but a judge went against that request. coming up, more from decision 2010. portis's controversial statement about female sports

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chilly morning. highs reaching low 80s later todayith lots of sun. mid-80s tomrow with increasing clouds. might get a shower thursday night. sun back by friday afternoon with highs in the low 80s. low 80s osaturd with plenty of sunshine. we'll take a look at sunday and into next week along with what's happening in the tropics. that will be at 6:5 tom, north of town chopper 4 is over the outer loop of the beltway. thamp nasp avenue. it appears to be a fender-bender second lane from the right. clearly you can see it on the top side of your screen. authorities headed over there. they have yet t arrive. as a result, beginning to back up quickly on the outer loop out of college park. new york avenue inbound first the brokenown tractor trailer. florida avenue. gonenow. somebody parked their car illegally in the right lane new york and north capil.

as a result that's jamming up rapidly. quickly, elsewhere, out to the west, looking good. dulles toll road. all is well. joe? >> bad idea to park illegally on new york avenue at this time. 43. clinton portis's controversial statement. >> salahi secret. something she's been hiding for years. more results from decision 2010. who is psed now to be the next prince george's county executive.

good morning. welcome back. our top story appears that washington, d.c. will have a new mayor. vincent gray has defeated curren mayor adrian fenty in the democratic primary. gray won by 7 percentage points. elsewhere in the district, jim graham won his primary bid in ward 1 with 57% of the vote, defighting smith and weaver. council memberharry thomas was victorious in ward 5. he won easily over mcduffy, o hunter and turner with 62% of the vote. >> and in ward 6, victory for tommywells. he defeated robinson with 75% of the vote. now the race for prince george's coty executive. we can now declare baker the winner in the race to replace jack johnson with 97% of the votes kwounted. bakerwon the democratic primary with 44% in a five-way race. michael jackson was second. john is in the newsroom now with more on this race.

good morning, john. >> joe, good morning to you as well. baker, a former state delega said before the numbers came in that if he didn't win on his third try he would be done. well, he doesn't have to worry about that anymore as he won prince george's county executive race. this was a hotly contested five-way race at times was overshadowed by allegations of voter fraud and fake ballots around the county. his closest opponent jackson believed he was the most experienced pepper for the job, serving as sheriff for the past eight years. as of ts morning he has not conceded defeat. still, baker said he is excited to get to work and cate jobs fort residents of prince

george's county. >> this is not the finish. this is the beginning line. >> this is not the finish, this is the beginning line. our goal is greatness. we arrive at the beginning. no matter who you voted for, whose t-sht you wore, who you chanted for in the parade. the goal of every prince george's is to make prince george's the greatest county there is. >> and with no challengers for the november election, baker is slated to be the next county executive of prince george's county. back to you. >> all right. john, thank you. montgomery county executive race, doug louse rosenfeld won 69% to 31%.

rosenfeld will face leggett, he will look ahead to the general election where he will face republican bob ehrlich who took allenger sarah palin and brian murphy in the gop primary with almost 75% of the vote. this may be the best time ever to be a rking woman in arica. the notorious wage gap is continuing to shrink. women now earn 83 cents to every dollar earned by a man. a decade ago it was 76 nts. in 1979, it was 62 cents. more women are in the workforce than n. not surprising there. > the d.c. housewife reveals something she's been hiding for years.

>> a new book revealed secrets about the white house party crashers from the "real housewives" of d.c. the book by diane diamond says she has multiple sclerosis and that is why she is so thin. it forced them to make an early exit fromhe white house state dinner last year. redskins running back portis is apologizing for comments he made about women reporters in the locker room. his remarks came in the wake of reporter inez sainz. she is a reporter from mexico who was at a new york jets actice last week. an nfl security team is investigating whether she was verbally harassed. everybody has been talking about the sainz saga, including portis on 106.7 the fan radio. >> you give her a choice of 53 athletes, smebody has to do it. she going to wantsomebody. i don't know what kind of woman won't. >> portis latereleased the statement. quote, i was wrong to make the commts i did, and i apologize.

i respect the job all reporters do. it's a tough job and we all have to work and act in a professional matter. i understand and support the eam on these iues. 6:51 our time now. time for weather and traffic on the ones. >> m, looks like a nice day. >> pumpkin sunrise under way here. pump kips are ready for picking, too. certainly an autumn like morning. on this weapons, mostly clear sky now looking at the temperatures, is just in the low 60s in washington. and near the waters from the shaw neighborhood to oxen hill, upper marlboro, montgomery village, wheaton. clear sky thanks to high pressure moving from the north and west over the last several hours. and it will be in place here today. giving us plenty of sunshine. meanwhile, out in the tropics we have tropical storm carl, which is moving toward the yucatan on the western caribbean. meanwhile, we have powerful hurricane igor. farther to the east is a weake hurricane julia. thankfully igor has weakened a

little bit overnight. peak winds of 155. now they're down to 145. still a powerful category 4 storm. the track will take it east of bermuda saturday, remaining out to sea 500 miles off the atlantic seaboard thankfuly. the forecast for students waiting for buses this morning, clear, cool, near 50 in the rural areas. near 60 in the city. highs today reaching low 80s by midafternoon with lots of sunshine. sunset, 7:16. crescent moon up after that. temperatures in the 60s through the evening. near 60 by dawn morrow. increasing clouds thursday. chance of a shower tomorrow night. then on friday, clouds in the morning, sun in the afternoon. highs low 80s. mostly sunn saturday. into the low 80s as well as sunday, monday, tuesday next week. >> time to take a live look this hour top side of the capital beltway. chopper 4. new hampshire avenue had the fender bender, quickly moved to the shoulder. however, delays reaching back to college park. so headup for that.

but doesn't appear to be really much worse than normal. so good news there. but it is normally backed up. let's head over and update you into the sunshine. 66. loading up very rapidly. south of town at wilson bridge, no concerns. travel lanes op both directions. out on the rails, fredericksburg train302 still a couple minutes behind schedule. that's going to be taken care of. mark rail, brunswick 870, 872 and 892 all wit slight delays. joe? an. >> vincent gray and his supporters are celebrating this morning. d.c. council chairman has beaten mayor adrian fenty in the democratic primary. gray declared victory early this morning. >> tracee wilks is live in northwest washington where he is expected tospeak later today. tracee, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, joe. the polls called it.

they said he would win, and it has happened. there was a celebration just a few hours ago. final numbers showed chairman vincent gray won 53% of the vote. gray support predominant from the african-american parts of the ty east of the river and helped to carry the candidate. 67-year-old gray came into city politics late but rose rapidly, winng the ward 7 council seat in 2004, chairman spot in fw200 and now is preparing to be mayor. >> now it's time for us to look forward. now we can work to unite our great city. so every resident has not only a voice but a role in attacng the challenges we face ahead. >> reporter: barring any major write-in candidate, he could be

the next mayor d.c. he prepares for the general election november 2nd. joining us live at the nty camp is elaine reyes. >> reporter: hey, tracee, mayor fenty is expected to call vcent gray early this morning. he said he wanted to wait until the official numbers came in from the board of election. fenty stayed up late in northwest headquarters for the final vote count. he was elected back in 2006 as the district's youngest mayo as the votes came in yesterday, he took in mostly white voters while black supporters supported vincent gray. constituents have complained of his managent style in the past with 90% reporting, fenty, 46% of the vote, gray, 53%. the last time he was in an election he won every single

precinct. when asked if he would consider a write-in, a spokesperson said it was too early to tell if that was a possibility. back to you in the studio. >> elaine, thank you. >> we have complete coverage of decision 2010 on nbcwashington.com where you can see all the primary results. breaking news out of prince george's county where pole are surrounding a house where a gunman is reportedly barricaded inside. this is 8600 block of rich burrow in capital heights. the gunman is holding a female hostage inside. noeports of any shots fired. police are now trying to resolve the situation peacefully. and we'll continue to follow this. let's get an out-the-door forecast. 40s in the mountains. high today around 80. incasing clouds tomorrow. highs in the mid-80s small chance of a shower

tomorrow night, but dry friday into the weekend. >> another accident just hapned on the outer loop of new hampshire avenue, second one of the morning. fire and rescue crews on the scene. >> that's news 4 today. thanks for startingour day with us. >> the "today" show is next. back tomorrow morning at 4:30. hope to see you then. have a great day. >> bye. [ male announcer ] the turn changes everything.

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